A standard manor house is constructed from stone, wattle & daub, or a combination of both. The roof is usually tiled. Only members of the nobility (typically vassal knights and possibly bannerets) will have a standard manor house as a home.
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A large manor house is normally build of stone walls and a tiled roof. Most vassal knights and bannerets have a large manor house as their main residence. While members of higher nobility usually have at least a motte & bailey as a main residence, some may have one of more large manor houses on their lands in other locations.

A “motte” is a hill (usually manmade) and the term “bailey” refers to a fortified enclosure. A keep, usually made of wood or wattle & daub, is located on top of the motte, enclosed within a wooden palisade. A palisade likewise encloses the bailey. A motte & bailey is the most basic type of castle in the Pendragon game.

The enclosure contains the sort of buildings needed for the maintenance of the entire motte & bailey and the lord’s family (i.e., barracks, stable, kitchen, well, blacksmith, etc.). In the Huntington Campaign, the dwellings and workers within the bailey are considered part of the castle and not the hamlet or village that shares the estate.
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A shell keep & bailey has the same basic design as a motte & bailey (cf.). The difference is that the shell keep and bailey has a stone keep surrounded by a stone wall (at least as far as the Huntington Campaign is concerned; the situation concerning actual historical shell keeps could vary).

Sometimes the Pendragon rulebooks refer to a “reinforced motte & bailey.” In the Huntington Campaign, such references are understood to be a shell keep & bailey.

Pictured above are the remains of the shell keep of Restormel Castle in Cornwall.
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